Issue: Frequent Blue Screens of Death
Motherboard: Asus M4A87TD EVO
Processor: AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Deneb 3.4GHz
Memory: G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (9-9-9-24-2N)
Video Card: Radeon HD 6770 (Catalyst 11.9 Drivers)
Power Supply: 750 Watt
OS: Windows 7x64
Things I've tried:
- Replaced old video card with Radeon HD 6770
- Replaced old power supply with 750 watt Corsair
- Updated to newest version of BIOS for motherboard (2.1)
- Ran MemTestx86 without errors for 7 passes
- Ran Windows 7 memory test without errors for 7 passes
- Hard drive's check out without errors according to SeaTools
- Reinstalled Windows 7 (after getting the new video card)
- System temperature ranges are normal (40-50C)
- Specifically set Memory Frequency to 1600 and timing in accordance with Memory specs in the BIOS
- Removed 1 memory stick
- BSOD seemed to become less frequent, but still occurred
- Results did not change with one memory stick or the other being the only one in the system
Blue Screen Errors Received:
SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION, KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED, INTERRUPT_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED, IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL, SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED_M
Files referenced in Blue Screen Erros:
C:\Windows\system32\drivers\dxgmms1.sys, C:\Windows\system32\ntoskrnl.exe, C:\Windows\system32\win32k.sys, C:\Windows\system32\drivers\atikmdag.sys
Occurs when:
- Playing STALKER: Call of Pripyat - Very consistently a few minutes into the game
- Playing Batman: Arkham Asylum - Farly consistently a few minutes into the game
- World of Warcraft - Randomly. Could occur every few minutes, could go an hour or 2 without happening
- Leaving my computer on over night I'm often greeted to a message in the morning stating Windows shut down unexpectedly
More Details:
My computer recently died after slowly showing signs of the old motherboard playing out. I purchased the Motherboard, Processor, and Memory listed above and installed with the rest of my existing components. When I began receiving BSOD, I thought it might have been my old video card, which was only supported with Legacy vista drivers under Windows 7. So I replaced with the Radeon HD 6770. When the issues persisted, I reinstalled windows from scratch thinking the old drivers might still be in play. No good. Thought maybe it could be the power supply, so I upgraded from 500 watts to 750. Still happening! Thus far I've spent a lot of money ruling components out one-by-one and am no closer to figuring out what is going on. Any ideas?
Motherboard: Asus M4A87TD EVO
Processor: AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Deneb 3.4GHz
Memory: G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (9-9-9-24-2N)
Video Card: Radeon HD 6770 (Catalyst 11.9 Drivers)
Power Supply: 750 Watt
OS: Windows 7x64
Things I've tried:
- Replaced old video card with Radeon HD 6770
- Replaced old power supply with 750 watt Corsair
- Updated to newest version of BIOS for motherboard (2.1)
- Ran MemTestx86 without errors for 7 passes
- Ran Windows 7 memory test without errors for 7 passes
- Hard drive's check out without errors according to SeaTools
- Reinstalled Windows 7 (after getting the new video card)
- System temperature ranges are normal (40-50C)
- Specifically set Memory Frequency to 1600 and timing in accordance with Memory specs in the BIOS
- Removed 1 memory stick
- BSOD seemed to become less frequent, but still occurred
- Results did not change with one memory stick or the other being the only one in the system
Blue Screen Errors Received:
SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION, KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED, INTERRUPT_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED, IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL, SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED_M
Files referenced in Blue Screen Erros:
C:\Windows\system32\drivers\dxgmms1.sys, C:\Windows\system32\ntoskrnl.exe, C:\Windows\system32\win32k.sys, C:\Windows\system32\drivers\atikmdag.sys
Occurs when:
- Playing STALKER: Call of Pripyat - Very consistently a few minutes into the game
- Playing Batman: Arkham Asylum - Farly consistently a few minutes into the game
- World of Warcraft - Randomly. Could occur every few minutes, could go an hour or 2 without happening
- Leaving my computer on over night I'm often greeted to a message in the morning stating Windows shut down unexpectedly
More Details:
My computer recently died after slowly showing signs of the old motherboard playing out. I purchased the Motherboard, Processor, and Memory listed above and installed with the rest of my existing components. When I began receiving BSOD, I thought it might have been my old video card, which was only supported with Legacy vista drivers under Windows 7. So I replaced with the Radeon HD 6770. When the issues persisted, I reinstalled windows from scratch thinking the old drivers might still be in play. No good. Thought maybe it could be the power supply, so I upgraded from 500 watts to 750. Still happening! Thus far I've spent a lot of money ruling components out one-by-one and am no closer to figuring out what is going on. Any ideas?